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Latest posts
- Epistle from SAYM Yearly Meeting 2025 20 January 2025
- SAQN 255, October 2024, now available 30 October 2024
- SA Quaker News — March 2024 — Issue 254 28 March 2024
- Statement by Southern Africa Yearly Meeting of Quakers on Israel and Palestine 14 December 2023
- SA Quaker News — September 2023 20 September 2023
Category Archives: African issues
SA Quaker News — March 2024 — Issue 254
The new edition of SA Quaker News is now available for download. Is is available below and via the “Publications & Resources” page. SA Quaker News — March 2024 — Issue 254
SA Quaker News — September 2023
The latest edition of the SA Quaker News is available on the Publications page, or it can be downloaded here: https://www.quakers.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SAQN-253-web.pdf
Namibia Quaker Community Statement on Same-Sex Marriages
Media statement No embargo Enquiries: email justin@nawa.co.na We, the Namibian Quaker Community, feel it is important to raise our stance on the rights of the LGBT+ community, in the wake of recent Supreme Court decisions, and statements in Parliament and … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, African issues, Community Care, Human Rights, Position Statements
Tagged LGBT+ rights, Position statement
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Quakers urge government to implement a universal basic income or face ‘dire consequences’
This article by the YM Co-Clerks, Gregory Mthembu-Salter and Benonia Nyakuwanikwa, was published in the Daily Maverick at the following link: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-05-03-quakers-urge-government-to-implement-universal-basic-income/
SA Quaker News, September 2022, now available
The latest SA Quaker News, Number 250, published in September 2022 is now available from the link below. SA Quaker News — September 2022 The issue has a large focus on Ubuntu, the theme for the SAYM Yearly Meeting coming … Continue reading
World Bank report on Inequality in Southern Africa
An Assessment of the Southern African Customs Union Download the report by clicking the image below. The PDF file is about 8,5 MB.
Representatives Meeting, 26/27 March 2022 documentation
The document pack for the March 2022 Representatives Meeting can be downloaded via the SAYM web page.The reports in the document pack are also available for browsing online as web pages. They can also be accessed via the SAYM web … Continue reading
Posted in African issues, Calendar items, Children, FWCC, History, Quaker history, Reports, Reps Meeting, World community
Tagged Document pack, FWCC WPM, Representatives Meeting, RM 2203
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Statement on the Passing of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
On behalf of Quakers in Southern Africa, we’d like to express our deepest sympathy and love to his wife Leah and extended family, as we celebrate the life of our much loved Desmond Mphilo Tutu. Quakers in Southern Africa give … Continue reading
Posted in African issues, Position Statements, World community, World issues
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Quaker Community in Southern Africa endorses SACC statement
At their recent virtual meeting the Quaker Community in Southern Africa was made aware of the following statement of the South African Council of Churches. “The South African Council of Churches (SACC) is dismayed and perplexed by reports that Government … Continue reading
Statement on the Failed Insurrection and Civil Unrest in South Africa
Issued by the Quaker Community in Southern Africa 1 August 2021 26 years after the advent of democracy in South Africa, we have experienced our first major insurrection. It is still early days, and facts may yet come to light … Continue reading